Reseller Support

Activation Pro v12.5 includes support for license resellers. A reseller can be any company in the Activation Pro database, even companies who have activation keys assigned to a contact at that company.

A reseller cannot create or edit product definitions and has limited editing access for activation keys. Also, the reseller will have a limited view of the activation database in the GUI. A reseller can, however, create new companies and contacts and assign their activation keys to these new contacts. A reseller’s ability to edit activation keys is specified by you, the ISV, in the Admin → Reseller tab. By default, resellers can assign contacts to their keys, modify the notes field of these keys, and set the whitelisted URLs for the keys.

In order to create a reseller, do the following:

  • Make sure that the reseller company has at least one contact in your Customers tab.

  • Create a login account for any contact at the reseller. This account should have an access type of “Reseller”.

  • Create one or more activation keys for this reseller. When creating the activation keys, near the bottom of the form, select the reseller’s company from the choicelist in the Optional: Reseller owner of key: field.

That is all there is to do to set up a reseller.

When your reseller logs in to the Activation Pro software, their main menu will have some restrictions:

  • No Products, Admin, or Profile tabs.

  • The reseller will see only activation keys which they “own”, as well as activation keys where they are the contact on the key.

  • A reseller will only see customers which they have created in the Customers tab.

  • The reseller will have a more limited Reports tab, which does not contain any of the reports for products or statistics.

The reseller can create customers, assign their activation keys to these customers so that their customers can fulfill their own licenses for your software. You, as the ISV, will be able to see the status of all the reseller’s keys as well as the customers assigned.

You can set the fields available for editing by the reseller in the Admin → Resellers tab. If you want your resellers to be able to edit other fields in the activation key, check the appropriate boxes. Only the enabled fields will appear in the reseller’s edit screen for the key.